The Dragonfly

If there’s one thing life has taught me, it’s this: Change doesn’t wait until you’re ready. It doesn’t send a warning. It doesn’t check your schedule. It just shows up. Sometimes it’s a phone call. Sometimes it’s a diagnosis. Sometimes it’s the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, a move you didn’t expect, or a door that suddenly closes. One day life looks familiar. The next day, it doesn’t. The dragonfly spends most of its life underwater, completely unaware of what it’s about to become. Then one day, everything changes. It leaves behind the only world it has ever known and emerges into something entirely different. I think a lot of us are standing on that branch more often than we realize. Caught between who we were and who we’re becoming. And if we’re honest, that’s uncomfortable. We like certainty. We like plans. We like knowing how the story ends. But growth rarely happens in certainty. It happens in transition. Some of the biggest blessings in my life arrived disguised as interruptions. At the time, I didn’t see them as opportunities. I saw them as problems. I wanted things to stay the way they were because the familiar felt safe. Looking back now, I’m grateful they didn’t. The life I have today was built from changes I never would have chosen for myself. That’s why I’ve stopped asking, “Why is this happening?” And started asking, “What is this preparing me for?” Because every version of you has a season. And sometimes the person you’re becoming requires the person you’ve been to let go. The dragonfly reminds us that transformation isn’t always comfortable. But neither is staying trapped inside a life you’ve outgrown. Sometimes change arrives before you’re ready. And sometimes that’s exactly why it arrives.